unmerge 236688 severity 174945 normal thanks On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 09:15:18PM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> severity 174945 serious > merge 236688 174945 > thanks > > On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 07:04:33PM +0000, James Troup wrote: > > Package: apt > > Version: 0.5.23 > > Severity: serious > > > > | vore:/# apt-get source ed > > | Reading Package Lists... Done > > | Building Dependency Tree... Done > > | Need to get 195kB of source archives. > > | E: Unable to parse package file > > /var/lib/apt/lists/incoming.debian.org_buildd_Sources (1) > > | E: Tried to dequeue a fetching object > > | E: Tried to dequeue a fetching object > > | E: Tried to dequeue a fetching object > > | vore:/# > > > > This seems to be because linux-kernel-di[1] now has a Binaries: field > > which is > 10k characters long. > > The problem seems to be that the stanza is larger than 32k, the mishandling > of which is a known bug which didn't break anything important until now. I > guess I'll probably just bump the limit as a quick fix, to 128k or > something. Hmm, on second thought, you may be right; it could be running into that limit first. At any rate, it's bigger than the 32k limit as well, though I'm not certain that applies in this particular case. -- - mdz
